Tim Mitchell is a business intelligence consultant, author, trainer, and SQL Server MVP with over a decade of experience. Tim is the principal of Tyleris Data Solutions and is a Linchpin People teammate.
Tim has spoken at international, regional, and local venues including the SQL PASS Summit, SQLBits, SQL Connections, SQL Saturday events, and various user groups and webcasts. He is a board member at the North Texas SQL Server User Group in the Dallas area. Tim is coauthor of the book SSIS Design Patterns, and is a contributing author on MVP Deep Dives 2.
You can visit his website and blog at TimMitchell.net or follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/Tim_Mitchell.

The second annual SQL Saturday Baton Rouge event is coming up in less than two weeks! Have you registered?

I’m honored to be speaking at this event again this year. I’ll be presenting an introductory SSIS class (one of the 7:30 early bird sessions). Later in the morning I’ll be delivering a talk on expressions and configurations in SSIS, one of my favorite topics.

This event will feature a new track that has not been tried at a SQL Saturday event yet, at least as far as I know. Patrick LeBlanc, the event organizer (and recent MVP awardee!) added a series of sessions entitled “Ask the Experts”, in which attendees can sit down with experts in a particular discipline and discuss just about anything. Among the experts participating are Steve Jones, Denny Cherry, Kevin Boles, Bryan Smith from Microsoft, and others. I will be cohosting the SSIS/ETL/Data Warehouse hour with Steve Simon, so please stop by if you want to talk about anything BI related, or if you just want to say hello.